What are you reading?

Finished The Son by Philip Meyer, and it was really good. Though I'm a bit disappointed that what ended up being my favourite part of the book wasn't longer than it was. The book basically boils down to life in Texas, especially early Texas.

Currently reading Encounter with Tiber by Buzz Aldrin & John Barnes and really loving it. It's making me all giddy inside.

Last night I read a bit more of Hidden Empire (first volume in the Seven Suns series) but several times I got so infuriated by the endless repetitions that I had to get out of bed and pace the floor swearing and shaking my fists...

Well, maybe not, but I still had to take a deeep breath and count to ten a few times to be able to suppress my anger over the bad writing.

I may not be able to continue reading...

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I think the only book that ever had that effect on me was Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys. It was an awkward attempt at adult sophistication by someone who clearly had no life experience-- sort of the nuBSG of the 1950s.

I have just started reading The Satin Man: Uncovering the mystery of the missing Beaumont children by Alan Whiticker.

The disappearance of the 3 Beaumont children from a beach in Adelaide in 1966 is Australia's greatest mystery and I believe that the author gives his own theory about what happened to them in this book.

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This prompted me to look the incident up on Wikipedia. Very sad, I'd be interesting in knowing what his conclusions are?

Finished The Testimony over the weekend. It is one of those books you just want to throw across the room when you've finished it. It's an interesting concept, and it'd be churlish to suggest that I like everything explained but I think he could have done more to at least intimate more possibilities for what caused it rather than leaving the whole thing hanging. Also given he writes from the perspective of 20+ people across the globe but they all practically talk the same way! Wants to be WWZ, doesnt come close.

Now relaxing with an Jonathan Kellerman Alex Delaware mystery (one of those books you;'re probably not sure who's the author and who's the title character if you don't know!)

I just finished The Last Black Cat. It is supposed to be a book for children, however, I think I'll never be old enough for one of Trivizas' books. In essence, it is a book about racism. Black cats start disappearing all over the place but the other cats do not seem to care, until it's kind of late...

In the on-line article, Greg Egan highly recommends Richard Feynman's QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, which I then bought... However, having only read the introduction, I realise it's not bed-time reading for me so, to have have some of that I started reading M. John Harrison's The Centauri Device.

I just finished The Last Black Cat. It is supposed to be a book for children, however, I think I'll never be old enough for one of Trivizas' books. In essence, it is a book about racism. Black cats start disappearing all over the place but the other cats do not seem to care, until it's kind of late...